2-3 frames delay on movie start

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PoliticalBonobo
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2-3 frames delay on movie start

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I have a 23.98fps .mp4 movie file that I'm trying to sync up to the DP time code. Time stamp on movie starts at 1:00:00;00. In DP, I setting the chunk start time and the movie start time to the exact same frame. However, when I hit right on the keyboard to advance to the first frame, the movie doesn't advance a frame until about 2-3 frames have advanced in DP.

I've had this happen on a few movie files (not all) and attributed it to the editor making a mistake. However, when I open the movie file in Quicktime, there is no delay when I go one frame from 1:00:00;00 to 1:00:00;01.

I can just offset the movie start time in DP, but am afraid the timing will be off when the editor puts my song in.
DP9.5 64bit, Windows 10 Pro 64bit, UA Apollo Quad FireWire interface, Desktop: Intel i7 5820K at 4.0ghz, MSI X99A Gaming 7 mobo, 48gb RAM (DDR4 at 2133 mhz), MSI GTX 960 2GD5T 2GB, 512GB Samsung 950 Pro m.2 SSD (project/system drive). VEP 6
PoliticalBonobo
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Re: 2-3 frames delay on movie start

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MOTU is looking into this as they were able to recreate the problem. Will update.
DP9.5 64bit, Windows 10 Pro 64bit, UA Apollo Quad FireWire interface, Desktop: Intel i7 5820K at 4.0ghz, MSI X99A Gaming 7 mobo, 48gb RAM (DDR4 at 2133 mhz), MSI GTX 960 2GD5T 2GB, 512GB Samsung 950 Pro m.2 SSD (project/system drive). VEP 6
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Re: 2-3 frames delay on movie start

Post by mesayre »

Thanks for reporting this. I have an MP4 right now that is pretty laggy when scrubbing or locating in DP 9.5 on Win 10.

I was able to retain my sanity a bit by unlinking video playback from transport, since most of the time I don't actually need it playing. But of course that's not gonna help if you need to see the video.

Interested to hear what they say.
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Re: 2-3 frames delay on movie start

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Not seeing this on the Mac.
2013 Mac Pro 32GB RAM

OSX 10.14.6; DP 10; Track 16; Finale 26, iPad Pro, et al

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